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Re: keyboard layout patches
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Carles Pina i Estany |
Subject: |
Re: keyboard layout patches |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:25:37 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Hi,
On Jan/18/2010, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > Actually if prefix (that it's a variable) is "/" then args[0] acts as a
> > filename. Would be like "///test/filename" and it's a valid directory.
> >
> >
> Perhaps we should remove prefix variables altogether.
I understand that you mean that the user would type:
load_keyboard /boot/grub/layouts/es
right? (in the shell or the config file)
Comments on this?
(I don't like it, I would even prefer to have the prefix hardcoded or
like it's now)
> >> Can you think of a way to restoring keyboard map to English?
> >>
> >
> > unloading the module restores the original keyboard (so, English one). I
> > save
> > the original one when the module is loaded.
> >
> >
> I mean imagine that you're in a face to a grub with klingon keyboard
> how would you find your way out?
Klingon is my primary layout! :-)
I have different things to say and we could discuss quite long, but
let's jump to the ideas:
a) very short term: what about to register a command to "something"
(like "1234", numbers doesn't usually change between keyboard, right? or
"**" for the keypad -I should check that it works, but would fix if it
doesn't) that reverts to English?
b) medium term: as you suggested some days ago on IRC: Shift+Shift, or
Ctrl+Shift or something like this reverts to English.
I'm not sure about the infrastructure needed for b)
> Also keyboard_layouts is pretty small. Perhaps we can just make
> *_keyboard depend on it and put US keyboard into it as default and shave
> some complexity this way
How it would work in rescue mode and at_keyboard? I mean, extreme cases
that Grub for some reason could not reach the keyboard layout file.
The complexitity that we save is very reduced.
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Carles Pina i Estany
http://pinux.info
Re: keyboard layout patches, Carles Pina i Estany, 2010/01/18
Re: keyboard layout patches, Carles Pina i Estany, 2010/01/18